Emotional intelligence skills are at the very core of fulfilling relationships and success in life, of physical and mental health, of self-confidence and inner strength, of a sense of well-being and wealth.

These are the things that are the primary focus of human desires.

Clearly, this is not a wish-fulfilment program in which you “planting a wish” ritual on the day of the New Moon and merely wait for life to materialize it.

On the contrary, this Program tells you that if you want the seed of your desire to germinate, it requires a lot of hard work to become aware and to practice what you have learnt in life. Or to use Terry Pratchett’s words:

“If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”

The knowledge you will receive here will help you become aware of some of the most widespread cognitive errors and replace the beliefs that distort your contact with reality with ones that take into account its dual nature.

In addition, the main criterion for mental health is for a person to be wholesome and to integrate the rejected part represented by the painful truth about life. The truth about how we react to things in life lies in our emotions. When we reject our painful emotions, we reject the truth about how we feel. This rejection is the reason we get sick – physically and mentally.

Working with this Program will help you understand, accept and care for your painful emotions so that you achieve higher levels of mental health.

In this sense, working with these assignments and readings may have a distinct psychotherapeutic effect. And if you continue to practice the new mindset regularly in your life until it becomes a permanent part of your responses, it will have a lasting positive effect on your mental health and well-being.

It will be great if you decide to do this, because the purpose of this Program is to create the conditions for building emotional intelligence habits, and new mindsets need many repetitions in order to become part of your personality. Also, we always have some unfulfilled desires that can fuel us to learn and grow, to become better.

Reading the assignment takes less than 10 minutes and practising it does not require additional time as it refers to engaging the inner Observer while you go through the various activities of your daily life. All you need to do is to make an effort to stop when you feel the emotions rising and to bring awareness and understanding to them.

And, most importantly, when the next lunar month starts you will have an opportunity to catch up with anything you did not manage to read and practice. We need multiple repetitions so that we build a lasting mindset that changes the way we respond to what happens. Creating the conditions for that is one of the greatest strengths of this Program.

You can use the first set of questions to write down what you think about the topic and then you can explore the way you think through the second set of questions.

The vast majority of our problems are created by the misinterpretations of our mind, as well as by the one-sidedness of our conscious attitude. That is why the main subject of cognitive psychotherapy is the correction of the thoughts that distort our perception of reality.

Your individual work to explore your thoughts in the reflection room cannot replace your meeting with a cognitive psychotherapist, but it will give you the opportunity to ask yourself some of the most important questions you will hear in that meeting